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Commit a9d23e71 authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand Committed by Christian Borntraeger
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s390/mm: shadow pages with real guest requested protection



We really want to avoid manually handling protection for nested
virtualization. By shadowing pages with the protection the guest asked us
for, the SIE can handle most protection-related actions for us (e.g.
special handling for MVPG) and we can directly forward protection
exceptions to the guest.

PTEs will now always be shadowed with the correct _PAGE_PROTECT flag.
Unshadowing will take care of any guest changes to the parent PTE and
any host changes to the host PTE. If the host PTE doesn't have the
fitting access rights or is not available, we have to fix it up.

Acked-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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